喷嚏与电影风马牛不相及,然而电影确是始于‘一次戏剧性而又形象地描述一个人打喷嚏。’这究竟怎么回事呢?还得从一八九三年芝加哥举行的盛天世界博览会讲起。博览会的筹备人要求爱迪生在会上展出他发明的‘电影视镜’并提供‘影片’,爱迪生欣然同意。是年二月一日,爱迪生在新泽西州的西奥朗其建成了世界上第一座摄影棚——一个桥形建筑物,长方形的平台随太阳转动。由于拍摄时全靠阳光,平台上正对阳光竖起的景片又是一片墨黑,演员在煤窑似的背景前表演,所以拍出的画面难免黑白分明,反差极大,既无中间影调,也无层次。专业演员当然没有,卓别林那时才三岁。爱迪生去滑稽剧团找来了杂耍演员弗列德·奥特,要求他演出拿手绝技:招之即来的喷嚏。奥特身材高大,是美国东 Sneezing is irrelevant to the movie, but the movie does start with a dramatic and vivid description of a person sneezing. What’s going on? I have to talk about the world day in Chicago in 1893. The organizers of the fair demanded that Edison display his ’movie-glasses’ and provide ’films’ at the conference, and Edison readily agreed. On February 1 of the same year, Edison built the world’s first studio in West Orange, New Jersey - a bridge-shaped building with a rectangular platform rotating with the sun. As the filming depends entirely on the sun, the platform is on the sun erected the scene is a dark, actors in the coal-like background before the show, so the picture shot inevitably black and white, great contrast, neither the middle of the tone, No hierarchy. Certainly no professional actors, Charlie Chaplin was only three years old at the time. Edison went to funny troupe to find a versatile actor Fred Ott, asked him to perform stunt: trick to sneeze. Aote tall, is the United States East